Name: Bread Fruit
Ingredients: Bread fruit (ripe); Coconut; Milk

Why it works: Coconut and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,648 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Bread Fruit

Ingredients

Bread fruit (ripe)
Coconut
Milk

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Preheat your oven to 400°F (200°C).
Roast or bake the bread fruit until tender.
Scrape off the second rind and eat the interior as bread.
For a different preparation, boil the bread fruit until soft.
Mash the boiled bread fruit with coconut and milk.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

Coconut + milktop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,648 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).
Bread + milktop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together11,466 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).
Bread + coconuttop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together112 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).